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* BLOG * Page MAKING HOUSE CALLS IN THE AMAZON ABOVE: These children welcomed the Ruth Bell riverboat’s crew to their remote 24 village in Bolivia’s Amazon basin. Trusting God’s 6 Unseen Hand Total dependence on God is the first lesson a veteran surgeon learned on the mission field.

SHINING JESUS’ LIGHT A physician’s young daughter looks to God and her family for the strength to battle a serious 12 illness. ON CALL | 3

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POST-RESIDENCY PROGRAM 16 CLASS OF 2018 Answering 29 the Call calling A word from World Medical Mission for co-founder, Dr. Richard Furman help THANK 36 YOU for WHERE IS GOD CALLING YOU? serving Look at the latest “Calling for Help” to see which mission hospitals need WE WANT TO ACKNOWLEDGE and thank the volunteers in your specialty. men and women who volunteered at 30 mission hospitals worldwide.

COVER PHOTO: The Ruth Bell brings doctors and dentists to medically underserved communities along the Mamoré River.

World Medical Mission assists evangelical mission hospitals SAMARITAN’S PURSE HEADQUARTERS and clinics by sending Christian medical professionals P.O. Box 3000 • Boone, NC 28607 • (828) 262-1980 as volunteers, and by providing equipment, supplies, ©2018 Samaritan's Purse. All rights reserved. and other resources that help them treat patients in the samaritanspurse.org/wmm Name of the Great Physician. WorldMed 4 | ON CALL WORLD MEDICAL MISSION - A Ministry of Samaritan’s Purse

DEAR FRIEND

MANY DOCTORS who are new to the world of medical missionary service want to know: “What can I do?” That’s the initial question Dr. Ed Fitzgerald, a retired cardiothoracic surgeon from Indiana, asked 12 years ago when he was presented with an opportunity to go on a medical mission trip (look for his story on page 6). Yes, he was an expert in his specialized field. But serving in a West Africa mission hospital would involve many new challenges, including performing general surgeries he had not done since residency training. The prospect was both exciting and unnerving. Dr. Fitzgerald would have to rely on God in a deeper way than he ever had before. I am so glad that this gifted Christian surgeon—and thousands of other healthcare professionals like him—have taken that bold step of faith and followed the Lord’s call to serve overseas with World Medical Mission. Through their skills and compassion, the Lord has saved lives and patients have experienced spiritual rebirth through Jesus Christ. The 14 Post-Residency Program physicians who were commissioned this summer also add a spark of enthusiasm, fresh energy, and their own unique talents to our World Medical Mission family as they prepare for service as career missionaries. The two-year mentorship program was launched in 2004. Since then, we praise God for the more than 180 men and women who have completed their training and have helped supply doctors and dentists to 34 hospitals in 31 countries. If you are asking yourself what you can do on the mission field, my response is “a lot.” As Jesus told His disciples, “Lift up your eyes and look at the fields, for they are already white for harvest” (John 4:35, NKJV). May God abundantly bless your service in His Name.

Sincerely,

Franklin Graham President, Samaritan’s Purse ON CALL | 5

Dr. Ed Fitzgerald checks on one of his patients at a hospital in Togo. The surgeon began volunteering with World Medical Mission 12 years ago. 6 | ON CALL WORLD MEDICAL MISSION - A Ministry of Samaritan’s Purse

Trusting God’s Unseen Hand

A veteran surgeon reflects on more than a decade of service and God’s work in West Africa through World Medical Mission. Togo (title to come) ON CALL | 7

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or the past 12 years, Dr. Ed Fitzgerald his life would have a greater purpose Fhas made the trip to Karolyn than long periods of leisure on the golf Kempton Memorial Christian Hospital course. (Hopital Baptiste Biblique) in Adéta, He knew God wasn’t finished using Togo, understanding the sobering him and his unique skills, but he also realities of practicing medicine in a wondered what it might look like to developing country. Illness and injury continue serving in the medical field. that are survivable in North America Cardiothoracic surgeons aren’t in high often can mean a grim prognosis in demand in less-developed countries, West Africa—even with the excellent which is where he felt God calling him. care provided by the hospital and the He got an answer at church, when a surgical team. surgeon friend invited him to join a trip “We do what we can. We provide the overseas. “He invited me to join him best care we can with what we have as an assistant surgeon in West Africa,” here,” Fitzgerald said. “We realize Jesus is Fitzgerald said. “In Togo.” the Great Physician. God has given what But Fitzgerald was thrown into He’s given us, and He’s in control.” practicing general surgery on his The challenges of serving as a own much more quickly than he had surgeon in Togo have taught him a expected. Another surgeon had fallen ill greater dependence on God and the and couldn’t make the trip. They asked opportunity he has to point people to Fitzgerald if he could come early and Christ in the midst of their crisis. fill in. In fact, these obstacles are part of “I looked at my schedule and I had what compelled Fitzgerald to come golf, Bible study, bike riding.” he said. to Togo in the first place and have “Those didn’t seem all that important drawn him back year after year. “A lot so I agreed to come over early. I got out of people think that we come over my old surgical textbooks and started here because it makes us feel good. cramming for what I might find.”

“It’s pretty humbling to realize how little I know and it’s amazing to see how much God can do with the little knowledge I have.”

Because we get to do surgery,” he said. It had been three decades since “But I come here because I fell in love Fitzgerald had done his requisite with the people. I fell in love with the rotation in general surgery, but he hospital.” trusted God as he set off in 2007 for Togo. Since then he has returned every What Can I Do? year, often multiple times per year, to At the end of his 30-year career as a help meet vast needs in Jesus’ Name. cardiothoracic surgeon in Indianapolis, During that time God has used Fitzgerald knew the next season of Fitzgerald’s skill to save many lives, and In God’s Hands ON CALL | 9

He has given the veteran surgeon is back home raising awareness Fitzgerald enjoys the opportunity to lead patients and support for the facility. mentoring and their families to faith in Fitzgerald also finds ways to young medical Jesus Christ. But God has also gather and ship the equipment workers. strengthened Fitzgerald’s own and supplies the hospital so faith and sense of dependency as desperately needs. he treats critically ill Togolese. “One of the things I love “When you’re a physician about coming over here is here, you realize you’re not the you find out what the hospital ultimate authority and you can’t needs, and then you go back take care of people without to the United States and find God’s help,” he said. “Here, death people who can provide it. You is an everyday occurrence and put it together and get it over you have to be able to accept here so they can give better that you’ve done what you can care to the patients,” he said. and it’s up to God now.” What he is not able to send over on a container ship, Year-Round Service Fitzgerald will carry in his own As a World Medical Mission luggage. He chuckles as he volunteer, Fitzgerald has describes some of the puzzled discovered a multitude of expressions from Togolese opportunities to strengthen the customs agents as they discover work in Togo—both overseas a tractor part he carried in and stateside. When he is not his suitcase for the hospital serving on the ground as a maintenance crew or the strange surgeon at Karolyn Kempton tubes and contraptions he has Memorial Christian Hospital, he brought for the medical staff. 10 | ON CALL WORLD MEDICAL MISSION - A Ministry of Samaritan’s Purse

TOP: Patients gather in line early in the morning to see a doctor. RIGHT: Fitzgerald prepares to perform surgery at Karolyn Kempton Memorial Christian Hospital. BELOW: Camaraderie provides good medicine during a lighthearted conversation with staff. Trusting God’s Unseen Hand ON CALL | 11

Karolyn “I come here because I fell Kempton Memorial in love with the people. I fell Christian Hospital is in love with the hospital.” a 40-bed facility that also provides outpatient and prenatal services. Legacy and who plan to follow in his Among the things that excite footsteps by serving there. Fitzgerald most about serving is Reflecting on all that he has the legacy he is seeing develop experienced over the past 12 both at the hospital and in his years, Fitzgerald’s greatest joy is own family. seeing God transform the lives Pulling from his four decades and hearts of the patients. He as a surgeon, he has been able is grateful to be a part of God’s to teach and empower the work in Togo. Togolese medical staff at Karolyn “It is a lot easier in Africa to Kempton, who are in turn able remember how powerful and to teach others. This intentional how extensive God’s reach is. It mentoring of medical has really broadened my view of professionals has become one of God and His work in the world,” the hallmarks of the hospital and he said. “It’s pretty humbling to has made it a premier teaching realize how little I know and it’s hospital in Togo. amazing to see how much God Fitzgerald’s infectious passion can do with the little knowledge for medical missions has also I have. It is a very humbling hit close to home. Two of his experience, and I am happy to children and a son-in-law are often be reminded that Jesus is physicians who give to, and the Great Physician.” n raise support for the hospital, 12 | ON CALL WORLD MEDICAL MISSION - A Ministry of Samaritan’s Purse

SHINING JESUS’ LIGHT

BY ARWEN MALLAY

Editor’s Note: As the daughter of a medical missionary, Arwen Mallay watched her pediatrician dad care for children at Karolyn Kempton Memorial Christian Hospital in Togo. She wanted to be a “light for Jesus” to hurting children too. A little over a year after moving to Africa, Arwen was diagnosed with stage 4 neuroblastoma. With honesty and courage, the 11-year-old shares how God and her family are helping her battle this health crisis—as she brightly shines the light of Jesus for all to see. TOP: Creative and inquisitive, Arwen loves to draw, sing, and read. RIGHT: Dr. Seth and Becca Mallay and their children came to Togo in 2017 through the Post-Residency Program. FACING PAGE: Arwen and her sister Elora handed out Operation Christmas Child shoebox gifts in a Togo village.

y name is Arwen Mallay, and I’m coloring, painting, sculpting, and M11 years old. My name comes from creating new things. The Lord of the Rings, which is one of When I was 8 years old, my family my parents’ favorite books. My dad lived in France so my parents could SHINING Seth (I call him “Papa”) is a missionary learn French, the language people speak doctor in Togo, West Africa. I have one in Togo. When we moved to Togo, I younger brother and three younger really liked that it was always warm sisters. Sometimes I don’t like having there. Everyone lived close to each such a big family, because I like to be other because we lived on a mission JESUS’ LIGHT alone, and that’s hard when there are so compound with the other missionaries. many people around! But sometimes Sometimes I missed my friends and it’s nice to have a lot of siblings. I always family that lived in the United States have someone to play games with. Some and France, but I had good friends in of my favorite memories are of us all Togo, too. Now that we are back in the playing together and making each U.S., I miss my Togo friends. I also miss other laugh. the heat! When I’m not playing with my In the middle of our time in France, I siblings or doing chores or schoolwork, started getting strange aches in my head I like to read fantasy adventure books and body. My parents thought I was or study music. I love to sing, and I am tired and would tell me to drink water trying to learn the violin. My favorite and rest. After we moved to Togo, it got hobby, though, is art. I love drawing, worse and worse. Sometimes my legs, 14 | ON CALL WORLD MEDICAL MISSION - A Ministry of Samaritan’s Purse

“I want to say thank you to all the people who are praying for me. Please pray for strength for me as I go through these hard treatments.”

arms, and back hurt a lot, too. After we Then my parents told me that this had lived in Togo a year, my friend, Dr. cancer is very serious, and even with Kristi, and Papa found a lump in my all the treatments, I still might not get stomach area. We decided to go back better. I was very sad, and I could tell to the U.S. for surgery to take out the my parents were also very sad. But I tumor. The doctors here did more tests believe in Jesus, and I know if I die, I and found out it was cancer, and that it will go to heaven. So I told them, “God had spread to my bones. They said the will heal me either way. Either here, or treatment would take at least 1½ years. in heaven, I will be healed.” I felt really disappointed, because I I started chemotherapy in February. It had thought we would only be in the made me lose my hair, but it has started U.S. a month and then go back to Togo. to grow back now. It also gave me an I had really wanted to stay in Togo and upset stomach, but it’s not too bad. I’ve finish our time there as missionaries. had a couple of small surgeries and one

Arwen and her baby sister Irene receive a visit from Lady Darla, a therapy dog at the C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital in Michigan. Shining Jesus’ Light ON CALL | 15

large surgery. The big surgery was to take the tumor out. They got most of it, but I still have cancer in other places. Since the surgery, I have had some chemotherapy with immunotherapy. The medicines I take make me grumpy sometimes, but I’ve been trying to have self-control. The hardest day of my treatment was the day after the big surgery. I didn’t feel well, and I had a big tube in my throat and they kept having to check to see if I was breathing alright. I’ve had some good days, though, too. Most of them were at the summer camp I went to in June. We played lots of fun games, talked about how God is the ultimate superhero, and watched our camp counselors dress up as funny characters and do silly things. It was Arwen is undergoing rigorous treatments after being really fun. I made lots of new friends. diagnosed with neuroblastoma earlier this year. She Papa has helped me watch my attitude says, “God is leading me through it. He is with me when I’m not feeling right. Mama and always, even through hard times and scary things.” Papa both keep me eating. My siblings have been good about leaving me alone how many people care about me when when I need rest. They also cheer me up they don’t even know me. by making me laugh. I was really glad Our family reads the Bible and Papa was able to stay with me after my prays together every day. My favorite surgery and help me go through all the Bible passage is Psalm 23. It helps me terrible things that I didn’t like at all. remember that God is taking care of me. He helped me remember to be kind to Even though I’m going through hard the people working at the hospital even times like the valley of the shadow of though I didn’t want to be. I was glad he death, God is leading me through it. He was there and I didn’t have to be alone. is with me always, even through hard Jesus helps me feel like I’m not alone, times and scary things. too. When Papa has to leave, sometimes The next steps are another scan it makes me sad, but then I remember and then more immunotherapy and God is still with me. chemotherapy. I will keep getting that When I was in Togo, I wanted to treatment every three weeks until most share God’s love with people, but I of the cancer is gone, and then there didn’t know how. I prayed that God will be a stem cell transplant. I want to would use me to show Jesus to other say thank you to all the people who are people. I think He has answered my praying for me. Please pray for strength prayer, because now people can see Jesus for me as I go through these hard when they see how I trust in Him even treatments. Pray that God will help my though I’m sick. parents be strong as they take care of Lots of people have sent me gifts and me. Pray that I will shine Jesus’ light at cards. I feel very thankful and amazed by the hospital. n 16 | ON CALL WORLD MEDICAL MISSION - A Ministry of Samaritan’s Purse

POST-RESIDENCY PROGRAM CLASS OF 2018 CALLED TO SERVE Called to Serve ON CALL | 17

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Drs. Willy & Jessee Bustinza General Surgery/Pediatrics | Willy: Oklahoma State University College of Osteopathic Medicine, Tulsa, OK & Oklahoma State University Medical Center, Tulsa, OK | Jessee: Oklahoma State University College of Osteopathic Medicine, Tulsa, OK & University of Oklahoma—Tulsa School of Community Medicine, Tulsa, OK Assignment: Hospital Mision Tarahumara, Mexico Vision: (Willy) “My desire to be a missionary and serve in ministry started at a young age working alongside my parents planting a church in Peru. As a teenager, I felt called to medical missions while reading biographies of missionaries working in remote areas of the world. Since then, I committed my life to work among the underserved sharing the light of Jesus through medicine, whether domestically or abroad. That desire has remained a constant in my life and I plan to continue serving the Lord through full-time medical missions.” Vision: (Jessee) “Having grown up overseas and knowing the extreme variety of patients that can present to a rural hospital, I feel that this position will best help me prepare to transition into medical missions. I also have a passion for community medicine and educating national healthcare providers to serve in their own countries. Long term, I would love to continue working in full-time medical missions, particularly in disaster relief and healthcare education (of both physicians and nurses) on an international level.”

Dr. Carl Chotas Family Medicine | Joan C. Edwards School of Medicine at Marshall University, Huntington, WV & Halifax Health Family Medicine Residency, Daytona Beach, FL Assignment: Chogoria Hospital, Kenya Vision: “My life’s goal is as Christ says in Matthew 28: ‘Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you.’ This, as well as my belief that God made me adaptable to rougher situations, is why I believe the Lord wants me to do missions.”

“Whom shall I send, and who will go for Us? Then I said, ‘Here am I! Send me.’” —Isaiah 6:8, NKJV Called to Serve ON CALL | 19

Dr. Ian & Rebecca Frankish Pediatrics | University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada & Western University, London, ON, Canada Assignment: Restricted Country Vision: “During my experiences in North Africa, I began to develop a heart for the Muslim world and began to consider a full-time career in medical missions. Finally, it was during my summer in Angola that I truly came to see and appreciate the impact that deep and long-term relationships, developed while meeting the medical needs of patients, can have for the Kingdom. It was during that trip that I fully submitted my life to Christ and felt a call on my life to pursue a career in medical missions, serving Him wherever He would use me, preferably in the unreached world.”

Dr. Justin & Cassandra Daggett Plastic, Reconstructive, & Craniofacial Surgery | Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, OH, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL, & University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA Assignment: Kijabe Hospital, Kenya Vision: “My family is the secondary guiding purpose of my life behind the will of God. Currently both my wife and I find the idea of raising our children in a missions setting appealing. We are blessed to have six children who love new situations and experiences and are relatively unbothered by change. The opportunity to show them more of the beautiful, nuanced world we have been given and the people and cultures that inhabit it is a true gift.”

“Whom shall I send, and who will go for Us? Then I said, ‘Here am I! Send me.’” —Isaiah 6:8, NKJV 20 | ON CALL WORLD MEDICAL MISSION - A Ministry of Samaritan’s Purse

Dr. Lena Gamble Family Medicine | University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL & Cahaba Family Medicine Residency, Centreville, AL Assignment: Kalukembe Hospital, Angola Vision: “My passion is seeing lives changed by the redemptive power of the Gospel. Medicine is one tool I intend to use to aid in this calling. I remember hearing a medical missionary say, ‘There will always be more people who visit your hospital than will ever visit your church.’ Therefore, I envision ministering in a hospital/clinic setting where sick people visit and leave whole in every way. I see a place where the Gospel is preached, taught, sung, and read in the language of the native people, but mostly where love is poured out on the sick and their lives are immediately transformed by the power of the Word and the presence of God.”

Dr. Laura & Larry Johnson Internal Medicine/Pediatrics | Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI & Greenville Health System, Greenville, SC Assignment: Restricted Country

Vision: “The call to missions preceded my call into medicine. I had early exposure growing up as a missionary kid in Africa, and I remember thinking that the call into missions must be one of the best callings. Not because it was glamorous, but because God promised His rewards to those who faithfully and sacrificially serve Him. Being involved in international missions allows a front-row seat to see the beauty of Christ’s global Church, and to keep perspective on His worldwide plan for redemption and restoration that supersedes language, culture, and place!”

“As each one has received a gift, minister it to one another.” —1 Peter 4:10, NKJV Called to Serve ON CALL | 21

Dr. Alicia Lay General Surgery | Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX Assignment: Restricted Country Vision: “In 2001, I went on my first international mission trip to Botswana when I was 14 years old. It opened my eyes to see the hurting people of the world who so desperately needed Christ in their lives. I was filled with the Holy Spirit and a longing was placed in my heart to bring the love of God to the least of these. I knew the Lord was calling me to full- time missions during that trip, and I prayed for Him to show me how to best use my gifts and talents to serve Him on the mission field.”

Dr. David & Mary Lean Pediatrics | University of Queensland School of Medicine, Brisbane, QLD, Australia & Royal Australasian College of Physicians Assignment: Kudjip Nazarene Hospital, Papua New Guinea Vision: “In my early teens, I grew in my faith, became interested in medicine, and was fascinated by Africa. This rapidly turned into a desire to become a missionary doctor. The only change to this desire through the years has been the location. We thank God for the privilege of serving our neighbors, the people of Papua New Guinea.”

“As each one has received a gift, minister it to one another.” —1 Peter 4:10, NKJV 22 | ON CALL WORLD MEDICAL MISSION - A Ministry of Samaritan’s Purse

Dr. Anthony & Kristen Miele Internal Medicine/Pediatrics | Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, Columbus, OH & Ohio State University Nationwide Children’s Hospital, Columbus, OH Assignment: Hospital Loma de Luz, Honduras Vision: “I began to sense a desire to do overseas missions after my very first trip to Honduras as an undergraduate in 2008. I watched my dad (a general internist) practice medicine among the poor, and I wanted to fast forward my life to become a doctor in that moment. … I went back to Honduras a year later, this time with my parents’ church in Chicago, and experienced even more joy and fulfillment in sharing the Gospel and serving in community to the Hondurans. This confirmed the important connection in my mind to pairing the Gospel with medical care.”

Drs. Peter & Rebekah Stafford General Surgery/OB&GYN | Peter & Rebekah: Ohio State University College of Medicine, Columbus, Ohio, and University of Kentucky Healthcare, Lexington, KY Assignment: To be decided Vision (Peter): “From a young age, I have wanted to be involved in foreign missions. Perhaps from reading stories on Hudson Taylor, Jim Elliott, John Patton, or hearing missionaries come and speak at our church, I have been intrigued by this. Using medicine as a means of getting to know people and an avenue to share Jesus has been appealing. At least from the time I was in high school, I planned on going into medicine and ultimately with the goal of being a medical missionary.” Vision (Rebekah): “I think I started seriously considering life as a medical missionary in college. I specifically prayed that I was willing to become a missionary, but that I didn’t think I could do it on my own. I told God if He wanted me to serve Him overseas, I would need a husband who was similarly called in order that we could go together.”

“Through love serve one another.” —Galatians 5:13, NKJV Called to Serve ON CALL | 23

Dr. Kurt Yandle General Surgery | Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC, Rush University/Cook County, Chicago, IL, University of Nevada Reno School of Medicine, Las Vegas, NV, & Mount Carmel Health System, Columbus, OH Assignment: Kapsowar Mission Hospital, Kenya Vision: “During medical school, I had the opportunity to go to Kapsowar, Kenya, and I was able to see how God can really use medicine to advance His purposes. I learned that medicine is an amazing set of tools that initiates a connection into people’s lives, and also that surgery can actually be really fun. I am excited to be able to return to Kapsowar under some great mentors, and envision being stretched mentally, physically, and spiritually. I welcome the lessons God will bring to bear in my life through my service to Him overseas.”

Dr. Sarah Villegas Family Medicine | Drexel University College of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA & Natividad Family Medicine Residency, Salinas, CA Assignment: To be decided Vision: “When I considered a life of missions, Paul’s example really stuck with me. He served the people he was ministering to. If I could provide a service, what would it be? What do people need? How can I love on them best? People who are sick and suffering need a doctor. Medical skills are an incredible tool to love people. While there are many, many ways to meet the physical needs of the lost and show them what God’s love looks like, medicine is the way He wants me to do it. Medical missions is the reason I went into medicine.” n

“Through love serve one another.” —Galatians 5:13, NKJV 24 | ON CALL WORLD MEDICAL MISSION - A Ministry of Samaritan’s Purse

From Dr. Batchelor's BLOG MAKING * HOUSE CALLS IN THE AMAZON ON CALL | 25

Dr. William Batchelor is a North Carolina oral surgeon who has served twice with World Medical Mission on the Ruth Bell Riverboat in the Bolivian Amazon. He shared this blog in tribute to the late Rev. Billy Graham and his wife, Ruth Bell Graham, the medical boat’s namesake. 26 | ON CALL WORLD MEDICAL MISSION - A Ministry of Samaritan’s Purse

t was late in the second week of our beginning to worry her. The range of Imission trip on the Mamoré River in potential diagnoses for such a lesion is Bolivia. The last village we stopped at was fairly large, and although mostly benign, set back about a quarter of a mile from the there was always the possibility that this river bank and was accessible only along a mass might signify malignancy or an path that wound its way through tall reeds even more serious condition located and banyon trees, still marked with the within the skull or brain itself. high water mud line that remained from We had no basic diagnostic capabilities the previous year’s floods. such as X-ray or MRI. Beyond simple On this day we were graced with a palpation there were no noninvasive special patient, the village matriarch. She methods available which would offer was a wizened woman in her early 60s us any idea of what was present before with bright, dark eyes, long raven hair, we set out to remove it. Aspiration of

“That’s the blessing, to see the world not through our own eyes, but through His, with His heart, and with His intent.” and a presence that approached royalty the lesion could offer a little clarity, but among the throng of gentle villagers only at the risk of potentially exposing who protectively accompanied her. her to infection, despite the rudimentary Seldom do the indigenous people of the aseptic measures we had at our disposal. Bolivian jungles survive past their 40s. Significantly, one of the chief causes of Therefore, she was unique. death in Bolivia is a parasitic cystic disease Her chief concern was a lump about of the brain, which commonly causes no the size of a golf ball on the crown of symptoms prior to sudden death. her head which she asked us to remove. Despite all these considerations she It had slowly grown in size and was remained insistent, and with a good measure of caution and her humble prayers, I agreed to attempt the procedure. The tiny cabin we used for surgeries was essentially a crowded 8 foot x 8 foot box with screened-in windows and a single-blade fan that hardly disturbed the swarms of black flies and mosquitoes constantly on patrol. I sat with my battery-powered headlight, balanced on a portable tripod stool, while she lay on the reinforced cardboard chaise that served as our operating table. All around us in the room and at the windows were gathered the shy but The Lady of the Jungle ON CALL | 27

The “surgical suite” on the Ruth Bell, where Batchelor and other medical team members treated patients. curious members of her village and jungle and, given hardly the most basic extended family, each craning for a view of instruments, had participated in what of what lay in wait beneath the roughly could only be understood as a gift from shaved top of her head. Their protective God, both to the woman of the village concern muffled the already thick, jungle and to myself. He had taken the most humidity into an ominous hush as I unlikely, unrelated, unconnected people prepped her scalp and made the incision. on the planet and led them by the sheer Thankfully, after a few tense moments power of His Spirit through circumstances of careful dissection, it became obvious designed and prepared to strengthen both. that this lesion was a harmless sebaceous Neither of us on our own merit or by cyst. It presented no difficulties in our own meager effort could ever have removal. In just a few minutes, a row of even remotely approached achieving, sutures and a stack of gauze were the much less envisioning the miracle only sign of the lump that had crowned which had just occurred, and all it took her otherwise regal head for so many was obedience. Obedience from me to years. She sat up, smiled gratefully, answer the call and obedience from the gathered her family, and like the woman to seek care. And the thing is, jaguars that shared her tropical paradise, the more audacious the call, the more disappeared into the afternoon jungle submitted our hearts, the more reliant without a single show of concern. we are on His promises, the greater the I sat there for a while, awestruck by reward, the greater the miracle, and the the moment and humbled by the miracle tinier our self-importance becomes. that had just unfolded. We had traveled That’s the blessing, to see the world down uncharted rivers into the wildest not through our own eyes, but through 28 | ON CALL WORLD MEDICAL MISSION - A Ministry of Samaritan’s Purse

pay one last visit before casting off. As we wound our way through the still, quiet reeds, the thatched roof huts of her tiny village gradually materialized. There, sitting at an open fire in the center of a clearing, sat our patient. She was unremarkable except for the stack of gauze still covering the top of her head. Busy at cooking, she hardly noticed us until we stepped out of the woods. A few other family members were stirring, and we were soon sharing greetings and explaining that we just wanted to be certain our patients were recovering well before setting off. We were doing surgical rounds in the jungle. I took a quick peek under the gauze, saw nothing bothersome, and reminded her Building relationships with villagers—young and old— family not to take the stitches out for at opened doors for the Samaritan’s Purse team to conduct least two weeks. She was happy but eager medical and evangelistic ministry. to get back to the fire, so we retraced our steps back to the boat. As we walked out, I took one last His, with His heart, and with His intent. look into the village and tried to If even for a few precious moments, that commit the vision to memory. What I is a gift which has no measure. It was remember was the lady of the jungle, in that moment that the peace of the stronger than before, content in her Holy Spirit was greatest and the simple surroundings, serving as both matriarch purpose of God’s will was clear. To and guardian of her little pueblo, first commit to mission work is to commit up, first to trust, and forever first to obey. to serving on His team. And the promise What I saw was a person in need. What to His team is to become bound to I saw was the opportunity to make a miracles you could never imagine, difference. What I saw was a pathway through a plan you could never design that no one knew was there. What I saw on your own, with a reward that could was through God’s eyes, and mercifully, I never be matched, all to glorify God and had obeyed. n enjoy His presence forever. Early the next morning, the captain and I cautiously hiked back into the jungle looking for her little pueblo to ON CALL | 29 ANSWERING THE CALL Dr. Richard Furman, co-founder of World Medical Mission

will never forget the little boy we operated on in the early 1980s at Mukinge Mission Hospital in Zambia. The youngster had a large retroperitoneal mass in his abdomen. No chemotherapy treatment was available in the country. All that Icould be done was to keep him as comfortable as possible. “With some patients, that is all we can do,” Dr. Jim Foulkes, a long-time medical missionary at Mukinge, told me. “But we must tell him and his parents about their hope for eternity.”

That was a lesson I never forgot. I Probably 80% would say they hoped thought about my cancer patients in the they had done more good than bad. I United States. Most of them knew I was would explain eternity in heaven was a Christian and a deacon at church, and not about being good or bad, but it they knew where I stood concerning the was all about Jesus. I would then pull Lord. But I had not made it a habit out a prescription pad from my to talk to them about eternity. pocket and write “John 14:6” Following that trip to “Not unto us, on it and hand it to them Zambia, I decided to begin O Lord, not as I explained what Jesus talking to my cancer unto us, but to said concerning eternity. patients about what was Your name I would then give them going to happen to all give glory.” a Bible in which I had of us some day. I came underlined the verse. It was —Psalm 115:1 to the conclusion that their decision but I wanted everyone who had been each of them to know the plan, given the diagnosis of cancer the one and only way they would had to contemplate the question of what be able to spend eternity with the Lord. happens after death. I never pushed The mission hospitals and the my thoughts on anyone, but I would missionary doctors are always thankful always ask if they would like to talk when we go to help them for four to about eternity. Every cancer patient I six weeks. I wonder how many of them ever had always replied that they would realize how much they influence our like to discuss it. I usually talked to them lives and our family’s lives when we on their final follow-up visit and would go to share our expertise with them? point to the examining room door and We should always thank them for the ask: “If that were the door to heaven and influence they have on us and our you knocked on it and someone opened patients back home. it—what would you say that would make them let you in?” 30 | ON CALL WORLD MEDICAL MISSION - A Ministry of Samaritan’s Purse

July through THANK September | 2018 YOU for serving Mission hospitals around the world depend on the assistance of Christian physicians and other medical professionals who volunteer to provide lifesaving care to the sick in Jesus’ Name. We want to thank the men and women listed below for their faithful service July through September 2018.

BANGLADESH Dr. Dan Gradin EL SALVADOR HAITI Ophthalmologist MEMORIAL CHRISTIAN Tigard, OR SHALOM FAMILY HAITI HEALTH MINISTRIES HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER MEDICAL CLINIC Dr. Pauline Anthony CAMEROON Dr. George A. Stouffer Dr. Carolyn H. Grosvenor Family Practice Physician Cardiologist Internal Medicine Physician Horton, England, UK BANSO BAPTIST HOSPITAL Chapel Hill, NC Ballston Lake, NY Dr. Ian A. Jackson Dr. Bryan M. Cairns Debbie Norman Family Practice Physician Family Practice Physician ETHIOPIA Bachelor of Science in Nursing Saint Joseph, MI Columbus, OH Fresno, CA

Andrew I. Mitchell Dr. Mary R. Cairns MYUNGSUNG CHRISTIAN Abigail C. Rogers Bachelor of Science in Nursing Family Practice Physician MEDICAL CENTER Bachelor of Science in Nursing Lebanon, IL Columbus, OH Dr. Roger P. Holland North Little Rock, AR Family Practice Physician Jeff Smith Augusta, GA Family Nurse Practitioner BURUNDI DEMOCRATIC Cortez, CO Dr. Kuhn Hong REPUBLIC OF Radiologist Terri L. Wiebe KIBUYE HOPE HOSPITAL Chicago, IL THE CONGO Associate Diploma in Nursing Dr. Rebecca Chancey Steinbach, MB, Canada Pediatrician Dr. Jeffrey J. Thompson Atlanta, GA CME/NYANKUNDE HOSPITAL Emergency Medicine Dr. Jennifer K. Grogan East Aurora, NY Dr. John Donkersloot General Surgeon HONDURAS 3rd Year Resident Sylvania, OH SODDO CHRISTIAN HOSPITAL General Surgeon Dr. James P. Richards HOSPITAL LOMA DE LUZ Plymouth, MI Dr. Robert H. Spencer Family Practice Physician Mrs. Brigid E. Bohl Cardiologist Lincoln, MI Master of Science in Nursing Gulf Breeze, FL Edenton, NC Dr. Phyllis Shelton Emergency Medicine Dr. Robert D. Bohl Asheville, NC Urologist Edenton, NC Dr. Richard W. Slovek Jennifer Hamelin Orthopedic Surgeon Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist Monument, CO Tampa, FL

Nola Holness GABON Certified Nurse Midwife Alexandria, VA BONGOLO HOSPITAL Dr. Bryan Jarabek Dr. Chi Wai Chan Internal Medicine Physician Orthopedic Surgeon Bloomington, MN North Point, Hong Kong

Dr. Louis L. Pisters Dr. Drew Rideout Urologist Pediatric Surgeon Sugar Land, TX Tampa, FL

Dr. Michael P. Steinkampf Obstetrician/Gynecologist Mountain Brook, AL JUNGLE HOSPITAL Joy A. Dordal Bachelor of Science in Nursing Bloomington, MN

* Served twice between July and September 2018 Dr. Michael Nestor Mary Levesque Dr. Valerie J. Busler Dr. Sarah E. Mayberry Emergency Medicine Bachelor of Science in Nursing Pathologist 3rd Year Resident Huntington Beach, CA Raleigh, NC Nashville, TN Internal Medicine Pediatrician Birmingham, AL Dr. Diana Patton Addison T. Morey Dr. David W. Chang Obstetrician/Gynecologist Bachelor of Science in Nursing Plastic Surgeon Dr. Suzan S. Mazor Huntington Beach, CA Raleigh, NC Chicago, IL Pediatric Emergency Medicine Seattle, WA Megan J. Oelke Dr. Joseph B. Cornett KENYA Licensed Practical Nurse Radiologist Dr. Leland C. McCluskey West Kelowna, BC, Canada Morrisville, NC Orthopedic Surgeon Columbus, GA AIC-CURE INTERNATIONAL Melinda G. Robson Dr. Wayne Ellis CHILDREN’S HOSPITAL Physical Therapist Internal Medicine Pediatrician Dr. Jennifer E. McNulty Dr. Nathan S. Alexander Hagerman, NM Indianapolis, IN Pediatric Emergency Medicine Pediatric Otolaryngologist Glen Ellyn, IL Greenville, SC Dr. Gerhard Schumacher Dr. Philip E. Ferguson Family Practice Physician Pathologist Dr. Esther K. Mwilaria Dr. Thomas J. Boeve Kamloops, BC, Canada Jonesboro, AR Family Practice Medicine Otolaryngologist Martinsburg, WV Beloit, WI Mrs. Janie Schumacher Nursing Instructor Dr. Jasmine Patterson Dr. Charles M. Boyd Kamloops, BC, Canada Pediatric Emergency Medicine Plastic Surgeon Tampa, FL Ann Arbor, MI Dr. Kristi H. Trickett 2nd Year Resident Dr. Parham Rasoulinejad Dr. Cynthia Gregg Family Practice Physician Orthopedic Surgeon Plastic Surgeon Yakima, WA London, ON, Canada Morrisville, NC KIJABE HOSPITAL Dr. S. Andrew Sabo Andrea Hellemann 5th Year Resident Dr. Rosebella A. Agola Associate Diploma in Nursing General Surgeon General Surgeon Dodoma, Tanzania, Africa Irondale, AL Birmingham, AL Taylor L. Newsom Brenda L. Stegner Justice O. Agyei Certified Nurse Anesthetist Physical Therapist 4th Year Resident Greenville, SC Colorado Springs, CO Neurosurgeon Dr. Lorna Fitzpatrick Buffalo, NY Dr. John G. Phillips Pediatrician Dr. Samuel L. Strachan Otolaryngologist Buffalo, NY Pediatrician Dr. Evelyn Y. Anthony Greenville, SC Vestavia Hills, AL Radiologist Dr. Bruce C. Higinbothom Winston Salem, NC Megan D. Russell Family Practice Physician Dr. Edward B. Strong Certified Nurse Anesthetist Abingdon, VA Otolaryngologist Dr. Douglas C. Barnhart Simpsonville, SC Sacramento, CA Pediatric Surgeon Dr. Jobin Johnson Salt Lake City, UT Dr. Matthew Vana Doctor of Pharmacology Dr. Ronald S. Sutherland Anesthesiologist Philadelphia, PA Pediatric Urologist Dr. Jolene D. Bean Lijewski Fountain Inn, SC Kailua, HI Anesthesiologist Dr. Mark G. Luker Temple, TX Dr. Wesley D. Vander Ark Orthopedic Surgeon Dr. W. Douglas Trotter Otolaryngologist Grand Junction, CO Family Practice Physician Courtney G. Bell Camp Hill, PA Snohomish, WA Speech Pathologist Dr. Stephen Mac Boone, NC Dr. James M. Wade Pediatrician Dr. David M. Turner Otolaryngologist New Orleans, LA General Surgeon Dr. Darrel J. Bell Abingdon, VA Roswell, NM Obstetrician/Gynecologist Dr. Rachel Martin Olympia, WA KAPSOWAR HOSPITAL General Surgeon Dr. America A. Warren Orlando, FL Internal Medicine Physician Dr. David A. Feick Dr. J. Forrest Busler Houston, TX Dentist Pathologist Franklin, TN Nashville, TN

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Jonathan T. Smyre Perfusionist Rolesville, NC

Dr. Ronald S. Sutherland Pediatric Urologist Kailua, HI

Dr. Dwight L. Tapley Family Practice Physician South Bend, IN

Dr. Marilyn Vanover Obstetrician/Gynecologist San Antonio, TX

Dr. Randall M. Vanover Internal Medicine Physician San Antonio, TX

Dr. Chris Vasilakis Orthopedic Surgeon Morgantown, WV

Dr. Andrea D. Ward 4th Year Resident Obstetrician/Gynecologist Cleveland Heights, OH

Dr. Ryan Ward 4th Year Resident Radiologist Cleveland Heights, OH Dr. Peter C. Wickwire Chandler M. Dixon Dr. Stephanie Kim 3rd Year Resident Sonographer 2nd Year Resident Dr. R. Gayle Williams Otolaryngologist Encinitas, CA General Surgeon Radiologist Sacramento, CA Brighton, MA Fredericksburg, TX Dr. Ruth H. Duda Dr. Kim Wilson Obstetrician/Gynecologist Dr. Joseph Klink Dr. Bruce E. Woodworth Pathologist Jacksonville, FL Urologist Urologist San Luis Obispo, CA Newburgh, IN Knoxville, TN Dr. Parker M. Gaddy Dr. Morgan S. Wilson Anesthesiologist Mrs. Rachel Klink Pathologist Raleigh, NC Adult Nurse Practitioner LIBERIA San Luis Obispo, CA Newburgh, IN Briana Glaspy Registered Nurse Dr. Amy M. Wood Dr. Adriel Lam ELWA HOSPITAL Raleigh, NC Neonatologist 4th Year Resident Callie Carpenter Baton Rouge, LA Radiologist Biomedical Technician Dr. John A. Grotting Kingston, ON, Canada Jenks, OK Orthopedic Surgeon Dr. James H. Wood Manhattan Beach, CA Pediatric Surgeon Dr. Mark M. MacElwee Dr. Josette H. Chamberlain Baton Rouge, LA Internal Medicine Physician Obstetrician/Gynecologist Dr. Lindsay Grotting Estes Park, CO Columbia City, IN Ophthalmologist TENWEK HOSPITAL Manhattan Beach, CA Dr. Densey A. Matthew Dr. Timothy R. Chamberlain Dr. Drew Benac Pediatrician General Surgeon Obstetrician/Gynecologist Dr. Robert J. Hacker Yukon, OK Columbia City, IN Wichita Falls, TX Neurosurgeon Eugene, OR Jennifer M. Moretz Dr. David W. Dunn Dr. John G. Boatwright, Jr. Bachelor of Science in Nursing General Surgeon Ophthalmologist Dr. Jeffrey L. Hallett Rolesville, NC Carlingford, NSW, Australia Mount Pleasant, SC Gastroenterologist Champaign, IL Dr. Bryan C. Myers Mrs. Kerrie Dunn Dr. Bryon J. Boulton Obstetrician/Gynecologist Medical Technologist Cardiovascular Surgeon Dr. Matthew A. Heimann Winchester, TN Carlingford, NSW, Australia Raleigh, NC Emergency Medicine Physician Birmingham, AL Dr. James P. Richards Dr. James L. Owens Dr. Allison K. Cabalka Family Practice Physician Family Practice Physician Pediatric Cardiologist Dr. Katherine A. Hill Lincoln, MI Aydlett, NC Rochester, MN 5th Year Resident General Surgeon Dr. Harry P. Rudolph, IV Dr. Frank Roam Dr. Rebecca L. Chait Valencia, PA Orthopedic Surgeon General Surgeon Ophthalmologist Mount Pleasant, SC Richland, MO Columbus, OH Dr. Eric P. Holmgren Oral Surgeon Dr. Rick Scacewater Dr. James W. Walker, Jr. Dr. Danielle Cooper Williamstown, MA Pulmonary Critical Care Physician Internal Medicine Physician Obstetrician/Gynecologist Joplin, MO Amarillo, TX Shreveport, LA Dr. Lauris C. Kaldjian Internal Medicine Physician Dr. Brittni A. Scruggs Dr. Paul D. Cooper Iowa City, IA 4th Year Resident Pediatrician NIGERIA Ophthalmologist Shreveport, LA *Dr. J. Patrick Kessler Iowa City, IA Orthopedic Surgeon EGBE HOSPITAL Dr. J. Cameron Crosby Franklin, NC Dr. Karen Small Carmen J. Marflak Emergency Medicine Physician Ophthalmologist Certified Nurse Anesthetist Homewood, AL Dr. Samuel C. Kim Benton, LA Beaufort, SC Ophthalmologist Chino Hills, CA

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NIGER Deborah A. Louden USA Lara B. Cofsky Bachelor of Science in Nursing Bachelor of Science in Nursing GALMI HOSPITAL East Toowoomba, QLD, Australia OPERATION Dumfries, VA Dr. Daniel M. Chase Laura Ann Marsan HEAL OUR PATRIOTS Justine B. Emerson General Surgeon Family Nurse Practitioner Dr. Heather L. Books Advanced Registered Nurse Practitioner Hoopeston, IL Cincinnati, OH Emergency Medicine Juneau, AK Kapaa, HI Dr. Sean Dupont Dr. Neil F. Martin Dr. Bill G. Goble General Surgeon Obstetrician/Gynecologist Dr. Peter C. Kwan Dentist Beaumont, TX Florence, KY Family Practice Physician Columbia, MO Sugar Land, TX Dr. Geoffrey C. Ibbotson Andrea A. Fox Dr. Andrew W. Moore General Surgeon Physician’s Assistant Obstetrician/Gynecologist Dr. Rodney McMillin Grand Prairie, AB, Canada Lees Summit, MO Richmond, VA Family Practice Physician

Kingston, TN Mrs. Jennifer Ibbotson Dr. Paul E. Gray, Jr. Ashli H. Roussel Physical Therapist General Surgeon Bachelor of Science in Nursing Dr. Joseph H. Park Grand Prairie, AB, Canada Fort Worth, TX Fort Wayne, IN Cardiologist Anchorage, AK Dr. Sheena Li Dr. Hans-Peter Knausenberger Amelia D. Schaeffer Dentist General Practitioner Bachelor of Science in Nursing Dr. Suzanne R. Snyder Markham, ON, Canada Kununurra, WA, Australia Sapulpa, OK Emergency Medicine Physician Lewis Center, OH Dr. Leland C. McCluskey Dr. Katherine E. Shafer Dr. Jennifer B. Smith Orthopedic Surgeon General Surgeon 2nd Year Resident TANALIAN BIBLE CAMP Columbus, GA Fremont, MI Pediatrician Dr. Timothy J. Low Louisville, KY Internal Medicine Physician Dr. Michael W. Penley Bernice A. Storm Silver Spring, MD Radiologist Bachelor of Science in Nursing Megan A. Smith Richland, WA Milford, IL Bachelor of Science in Nursing Dr. Kurt D. Mentzer Baton Rouge, LA Orthopedic Surgeon Dr. John Robertson Dr. Kenneth D. Wicker Anchorage, AK General Surgeon Internal Medicine Pediatrician Sasha R. Thew Sanford, FL New Market, TN Bachelor of Science in Nursing Mrs. Carol C. Stewart Cedar Park, TX Registered Nurse Dr. Richard W. Slovek Crawfordsville, IN Orthopedic Surgeon Patience M. Wells PAPUA NEW Monument, CO Registered Nurse Dr. Michael R. Stewart GUINEA Isle of Wight, England, UK Family Practice Physician Dr. Bruce C. Steffes Crawfordsville, IN General Surgeon KUDJIP NAZARENE HOSPITAL KAROLYN KEMPTON Linden, NC Dr. Peter J. Holmberg MEMORIAL CHRISTIAN Dr. J. Ross Tanner Pediatrician HOSPITAL Internal Medicine Physician Dr. Jesse S. Wong Rochester, MN Dr. Kari Campbell Anchorage, AK Dentist Pediatrician Markham, ON, Canada Dr. Heather M. Ringrose Tucson, AZ Dr. Stephen T. Walker Family Practice Physician Internal Medicine Pediatrician Mrs. Priscilla Wong Waterford, ON, Canada Dr. Michael Cheatham Elkin, NC Occupational Therapist Trauma Surgeon Cobourg, ON, Canada Dr. Richard Wong Orlando, FL Family Practice Physician ZAMBIA Brisbane, QLD, Australia Dr. Cecilia E. DeCook POST- Family Practice Physician Holland, MI MUKINGE MISSION HOSPITAL RESIDENCY RWANDA Dr. Rachel Homer PROGRAM Dr. Daniel DeCook Anesthesiologist General Surgeon Leeds, England, UK KIBOGORA HOSPITAL Holland, MI Dr. Jesse S. Wong Dr. Rebecca-Lyn Sokolove BURUNDI Mrs. Lilly Ann Haugo-Rusher Dentist 3rd Year Resident Registered Nurse Markham, ON, Canada Pediatrician Everett, WA KIBUYE HOPE HOSPITAL Phoenix, AZ Dr. Theodore John Dr. David A. Lovett General Surgeon TOGO General Surgeon La Palma, CA Winter Springs, FL ZIMBABWE HOSPITAL OF HOPE Dr. Jeshiah Thiessen Dr. Eric A. Nimmo General Surgeon Jacqulyn N. Burgess KARANDA MISSION HOSPITAL Family Practice Physician Kingston, ON, Canada Bachelor of Science in Nursing Nathan Williams Wasilla, AK Indianapolis, IN Certified Nurse Anesthetist Gallipolis, OH Dr. Edward Picardi Rachel Edson ETHIOPIA General Surgeon Registered Nurse Sturgis, SD Gray, ME SODDO HOSPITAL Mrs. Sandra Joann Picardi SPECIAL Dr. Brian Hodges Dr. Jenni L. Gillespie Registered Nurse Orthopedic Surgeon Obstetrician/Gynecologist ASSIGNMENT Sturgis, SD Vega, TX Houston, TX Dr. Bryan M. Cairns Dr. B. Paul Quinn Family Practice Physician Charis F. Idell Internal Medicine Physician Columbus, OH Bachelor of Science in Nursing GABON Texarkana, TX Ardmore, OK Dr. Mary R. Cairns Dr. Jerry Rusher Family Practice Physician BONGOLO HOSPITAL Hannah C. Keller General Practitioner Columbus, OH Dr. Andrew Huang Bachelor of Science in Nursing Everett, WA Plastic Surgeon Rolesville, NC Saskatoon, SK, Canada

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TENWEK HOSPITAL NIGER PERU Dr. William Copeland Neurosurgeon GALMI HOSPITAL LA FUENTE CENTRO DE Little Rock, AR Dr. Kathryn Hoyt SALUD INTEGRAL Obstetrician/Gynecologist Dr. Benjamin Lewis Fort Worth, TX Pediatrician LIBERIA Charlottesville, VA Dr. Stephen Hoyt ELWA HOSPITAL Family Practice Physician HOSPITAL DIOSPI SUYANA Fort Worth, TX Dr. Amy Hitchcock Dr. Julian Swanson General Surgeon Internal Medicine/Pediatrician Dr. Glenn Maas Johnson City, TN Houston, TX Family Medicine/Obstetrician Dr. Kimberley Huang Fort Worth, TX Family Practice/Anesthesiologist Saskatoon, SK, Canada MEXICO TOGO NIGERIA HOSPITAL MISION HOSPITAL OF HOPE TARAHUMARA KENYA EGBE HOSPITAL Dr. Christine Bies Dr. Jessee Bustinza Emergency Medicine Physician Dr. Ashley Reimer Pediatrician Schaumburg, IL CHOGORIA HOSPITAL Family Practice Tulsa, OK Dr. Providence Uwimana Canfield, OH Dr. Meghan McGinnis Family Practice Physician Dr. Willy Bustinza Obstetrician/Gynecologist Richardson, TX Dr. Sean Reimer General Surgeon Sugar Land, TX General Surgeon Tulsa, OK Dr. Emily Weimer Canfield, OH Dr. Benjamin Randel Family Practice/Obstetrician Internal Medicine/Pediatrician Salem, OR NEPAL PAPUA NEW Indianapolis, IN KIJABE HOSPITAL TANSEN MISSION HOSPITAL GUINEA Dr. Samantha Conroy SPECIAL Family Practice Dr. Pearl Lau Waco, TX Family Practice Physician KUDJIP NAZARENE HOSPITAL ASSIGNMENT Toronto, ON, Canada Dr. Sheryl Uyeda Dr. Laura Johnson Dr. Joshua Romero General Surgeon Internal Medicine/Preventative Medicine Otolaryngologist Syracuse, NY Greenville, SC Syracuse, NY Dr. Mathew Woodley Dr. Christina Miller Emergency Medicine Family Medicine/Preventative Medicine Erie, PA Colton, CA

Thank You to Katie Reiff, a family nurse practitioner who served at Haiti Health Ministries Medical Clinic

“Patients wait for hours in the hot Haiti sun, and many still go home without being seen and come back the next day to wait again. I was in awe of the patience most displayed and the kindness to me once in the exam room. Some patients had chronic issues like high blood pressure or diabetes, while others had urgent needs like acute illness or infec- tion. No matter what the need, the clinic staff came together to give the best care possible to each and every patient. I was overwhelmed with gratitude to be able to use my skills to help in a small way, but be part of such a larger plan. It’s a plan that God has been intricately woven into, where you can feel His presence everywhere.” n

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Join us at the Billy Graham Training Center at The Cove in Asheville, North Carolina, Oct. 12-14, 2018. Arrive a day early for the optional Missionary Medicine Seminar, Oct. 11, 2018.

FEATURED SPEAKERs:

Jim Cymbala has been the pastor of the Brooklyn Tabernacle in New York City since the early 1970s. The congregation has church plants in other parts of the city as well as missionary stations that bring the Good News to Haiti and the Dominican Republic.

Joni Eareckson Tada is the founder and CEO of Joni and Friends International Disability Center. She has written more than 50 books about disability outreach, God’s goodness, and the problem of suffering. Her daily radio program has been airing for over 35 years.

TO REGISTER, CALL 800-950-2092 36 | ON CALL WORLD MEDICAL MISSION - A Ministry of Samaritan’s Purse Calling helpfor Please pray for these mission hospitals and consider volunteering if you are a medical professional in one of the following specialties. AMERICAS

Alaska Bolivia Dominican Republic El Salvador Guatemala Haiti Honduras Mexico Peru

f you are interested in serving overseas, please complete our Volunteer Application Ionline at samaritanspurse.org/medical/volunteer-application. We are also accepting specialists that include nurse practitioners and other nursing

ANESTHESIOLOGY CARDIOLOGY Kapsowar Hospital, Kenya Banso Baptist Hospital, Cameroon Banso Baptist Hospital, Cameroon Karanda Mission Hospital, Zimbabwe CME/Nyankunde Hospital, ECWA Egbe Hospital, Nigeria Kibogora Hospital, Rwanda Democratic Republic of the Congo Haiti Health Ministries, Haiti La Fuente Clinic, Peru ECWA Egbe Hospital, Nigeria Hospital Diospi Suyana, Peru Macha Mission Hospital, Zambia ELWA Hospital, Liberia Hospital Loma de Luz, Honduras Mbingo Baptist Hospital, Cameroon Galmi Hospital, Niger Macha Mission Hospital, Zambia Myungsung Christian Medical Center, Ethiopia Hospital Diospi Suyana, Peru Myungsung Christian Medical Center, Ethiopia Nkhoma Mission Hospital, Malawi Hospital of Hope, Togo Shalom Family Medical Center, El Salvador Soddo Christian Hospital, Ethiopia Hospital Shalom, Guatemala Soddo Christian Hospital, Ethiopia Tenwek Hospital, Kenya Karolyn Kempton Memorial Christian Hospital, Togo Tenwek Hospital, Kenya Kapsowar Hospital, Kenya DERMATOLOGY Kibuye Hope Hospital, Burundi DENTISTRY Banso Baptist Hospital, Cameroon Macha Mission Hospital, Zambia Banso Baptist Hospital, Cameroon Galmi Hospital, Niger Mbingo Baptist Hospital, Cameroon Chitokoloki Mission Hospital, Zambia Haiti Health Ministries, Haiti Memorial Christian Hospital, Bangladesh ECWA Egbe Hospital, Nigeria La Fuente Clinic, Peru Mukinge Mission Hospital, Zambia Hospital Diospi Suyana, Peru Macha Mission Hospital, Zambia Nkhoma Mission Hospital, Malawi Hospital Loma de Luz, Honduras Mbingo Baptist Hospital, Cameroon Soddo Christian Hospital, Ethiopia Hospital Mision Tarahumara, Mexico Shalom Family Medical Center, El Salvador Tansen Mission Hospital, Nepal Hospital of Hope, Togo Soddo Christian Hospital, Ethiopia Tenwek Hospital, Kenya Hospital Shalom, Guatemala Tenwek Hospital, Kenya Jungle Hospital, Honduras Calling for Help ON CALL | 37

SPECIALTIES The needs listed below are general and ongoing. To see locations where a critical need exists, please go to samaritanspurse.org/urgent-need

AFRICA ASIA/PACIFIC

Burundi Gabon Nigeria Bangladesh Cameroon Ghana Rwanda Nepal Democratic Kenya Togo Papua New Guinea Republic of Liberia Zambia the Congo Malawi Zimbabwe NEW HOSPITALS Ethiopia Niger Hospital Mision Tarahumara, Mexico Nkhoma Mission Hospital, Malawi disciplines, physician assistants, physical and occupational therapists, and optometrists. If you do not see your specialty listed below, or if you have further questions, call World Medical Mission at (828) 278-1987.

EMERGENCY MEDICINE Nkhoma Mission Hospital, Malawi Karanda Mission Hospital, Zimbabwe Banso Baptist Hospital, Cameroon Shalom Family Medical Center, El Salvador Karolyn Kempton Memorial Christian Hospital, Togo Bongolo Hospital, Gabon Soddo Christian Hospital, Ethiopia Kijabe Hospital, Kenya ELWA Hospital, Liberia Tanalian Bible Camp/OHOP, Alaska Kudjip Nazarene Hospital, Papua New Guinea Galmi Hospital, Niger Tansen Mission Hospital, Nepal La Fuente Clinic, Peru Haiti Health Ministries, Haiti Tenwek Hospital, Kenya Macha Mission Hospital, Zambia Hospital Diospi Suyana, Peru Memorial Christian Hospital, Bangladesh Hospital Evangelico, Honduras FAMILY PRACTICE Mukinge Mission Hospital, Zambia Hospital Loma de Luz, Honduras Banso Baptist Hospital, Cameroon Myungsung Christian Medical Center, Ethiopia Hospital Mision Tarahumara, Mexico Bongolo Hospital, Gabon Nkhoma Mission Hospital, Malawi Hospital of Hope, Togo Chogoria Hospital, Kenya Restricted Country Hospital Shalom, Guatemala ECWA Egbe Hospital, Nigeria Shalom Family Medical Center, El Salvador Jungle Hospital, Honduras ELWA Hospital, Liberia Soddo Christian Hospital, Ethiopia Kapsowar Hospital, Kenya Galmi Hospital, Niger Tanalian Bible Camp/OHOP, Alaska Karanda Mission Hospital, Zimbabwe Haiti Health Ministries, Haiti Tansen Mission Hospital, Nepal Karolyn Kempton Memorial Christian Hospital, Togo Hospital Diospi Suyana, Peru Tenwek Hospital, Kenya Kijabe Hospital, Kenya Hospital Loma de Luz, Honduras Kudjip Nazarene Hospital, Papua New Guinea Hospital Mision Tarahumara, Mexico GASTROENTEROLOGY Macha Mission Hospital, Zambia Hospital of Hope, Togo Banso Baptist Hospital, Cameroon Mbingo Baptist Hospital, Cameroon Hospital Shalom, Guatemala ECWA Egbe Hospital, Nigeria Mukinge Hospital, Zambia Jungle Hospital, Honduras Galmi Hospital, Niger Myungsung Christian Medical Center, Ethiopia Kapsowar Hospital, Kenya Haiti Health Ministries, Haiti 38 | ON CALL WORLD MEDICAL MISSION - A Ministry of Samaritan’s Purse

Hospital Diospi Suyana, Peru Hospital Mision Tarahumara, Mexico INTERNAL MEDICINE NEUROLOGY Hospital of Hope, Togo Banso Baptist Hospital, Cameroon Banso Baptist Hospital, Cameroon Hospital Shalom, Guatemala Bongolo Hospital, Gabon Hospital Shalom, Guatemala Karolyn Kempton Memorial Christian Hospital, Togo Chogoria Hospital, Kenya Myungsung Christian Medical Center, Ethiopia Kibogora Hospital, Rwanda ECWA Egbe Hospital, Nigeria Tenwek Hospital, Kenya Kijabe Hospital, Kenya ELWA Hospital, Liberia Kudjip Nazarene Hospital, Papua New Guinea Galmi Hospital, Niger NEUROSURGERY Mbingo Baptist Hospital, Cameroon Haiti Health Ministries, Haiti Banso Baptist Hospital, Cameroon Memorial Christian Hospital, Bangladesh Hospital Diospi Suyana, Peru Kijabe Hospital, Kenya Myungsung Christian Medical Center, Ethiopia Hospital Loma de Luz, Honduras Mbingo Baptist Hospital, Cameroon Nkhoma Mission Hospital, Malawi Hospital Mision Tarahumara, Mexico Myungsung Christian Medical Center, Ethiopia Soddo Christian Hospital, Ethiopia Hospital of Hope, Togo Tenwek Hospital, Kenya Tenwek Hospital, Kenya Hospital Shalom, Guatemala OBSTETRICS/GYNECOLOGY Banso Baptist Hospital, Cameroon Bongolo Hospital, Gabon Chogoria Hospital, Kenya Closed Countries CME/Nyankunde Hospital, Democratic Republic of the Congo ECWA Egbe Hospital, Nigeria ELWA Hospital, Liberia Galmi Hospital, Niger Haiti Health Ministries, Haiti Hospital Loma de Luz, Honduras Hospital Mision Tarahumara, Mexico Hospital of Hope, Togo Hospital Shalom, Guatemala Jungle Hospital, Honduras Kapsowar Hospital, Kenya Karolyn Kempton Memorial Christian Hospital, Togo Kijabe Hospital, Kenya Kudjip Nazarene Hospital, Papua New Guinea La Fuente Clinic, Peru Macha Mission Hospital, Zambia Mbingo Baptist Hospital, Cameroon GENERAL SURGERY Karanda Mission Hospital, Zimbabwe Memorial Christian Hospital, Bangladesh Banso Baptist Hospital, Cameroon Karolyn Kempton Memorial Christian Hospital, Togo Mukinge Mission Hospital, Zambia Bongolo Hospital, Gabon Kapsowar Hospital, Kenya Nkhoma Mission Hospital, Malawi Chitokoloki Mission Hospital, Zambia Kibogora Hospital, Rwanda Shalom Family Medical Center, El Salvador Chogoria Hospital, Kenya Kijabe Hospital, Kenya Soddo Christian Hospital, Ethiopia CME/Nyankunde Hospital, Kudjip Nazarene Hospital, Papua New Guinea Tansen Mission Hospital, Nepal Democratic Republic of the Congo La Fuente Clinic, Peru Tenwek Hospital, Kenya ECWA Egbe Hospital, Nigeria Macha Mission Hospital, Zambia ELWA Hospital, Liberia Mbingo Baptist Hospital, Cameroon OPHTHALMOLOGY Galmi Hospital, Niger Memorial Christian Hospital, Bangladesh Banso Baptist Hospital, Cameroon Hospital Diospi Suyana, Peru Mukinge Mission Hospital, Zambia Bongolo Hospital, Gabon Hospital of Hope, Togo Myungsung Christian Medical Center, Ethiopia ECWA Egbe Hospital, Nigeria Hospital Shalom, Guatemala Nkhoma Mission Hospital, Malawi Hospital Diospi Suyana, Peru Kapsowar Hospital, Kenya Shalom Family Medical Center, El Salvador Hospital Evangelico, Honduras Karanda Mission Hospital, Zimbabwe Soddo Christian Hospital, Ethiopia Hospital Loma de Luz, Honduras Karolyn Kempton Memorial Christian Hospital, Togo Tansen Mission Hospital, Nepal Hospital Mision Tarahumara, Mexico Kibogora Hospital, Rwanda Tenwek Hospital, Kenya Hospital of Hope, Togo Kijabe Hospital, Kenya Kapsowar Hospital, Kenya Kudjip Nazarene Hospital, Papua New Guinea NEONATOLOGY La Fuente Clinic, Peru Macha Mission Hospital, Zambia Banso Baptist Hospital, Cameroon Mbingo Baptist Hospital, Cameroon Mbingo Baptist Hospital, Cameroon Galmi Hospital, Niger Myungsung Christian Medical Center, Ethiopia Mukinge Mission Hospital, Zambia Kapsowar Hospital, Kenya Nkhoma Mission Hospital, Malawi Myungsung Christian Medical Center, Ethiopia Karolyn Kempton Memorial Christian Hospital, Togo Tenwek Hospital, Kenya Nkhoma Mission Hospital, Malawi Kijabe Hospital, Kenya Restricted Country Mbingo Baptist Hospital, Cameroon ORAL MAXILLOFACIAL SURGERY Soddo Christian Hospital, Ethiopia Memorial Christian Hospital, Bangladesh Banso Baptist Hospital, Cameroon Tansen Mission Hospital, Nepal Myungsung Christian Medical Center, Ethiopia Galmi Hospital, Niger Tenwek Hospital, Kenya Nkhoma Mission Hospital, Malawi Hospital Loma de Luz, Honduras Soddo Christian Hospital, Ethiopia Hospital Shalom, Guatemala HEMATOLOGY Tenwek Hospital, Kenya Kapsowar Hospital, Kenya Galmi Hospital, Niger Mbingo Baptist Hospital, Cameroon Hospital Evangelico, Honduras NEPHROLOGY Myungsung Christian Medical Center, Ethiopia Mbingo Baptist Hospital, Cameroon Banso Baptist Hospital, Cameroon Soddo Christian Hospital, Ethiopia Myungsung Christian Medical Center, Ethiopia Hospital Shalom, Guatemala Tenwek Hospital, Kenya Soddo Christian Hospital, Ethiopia Mbingo Baptist Hospital, Cameroon Tenwek Hospital, Kenya Soddo Christian Hospital, Ethiopia ORTHOPEDIC SURGERY Tenwek Hospital, Kenya AIC-CURE International Children’s Hospital, Kenya Banso Baptist Hospital, Cameroon 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Bongolo Hospital, Gabon Hospital Shalom, Guatemala CME/Nyankunde Hospital, PEDIATRIC SURGERY Kapsowar Hospital, Kenya Democratic Republic of the Congo Banso Baptist Hospital, Cameroon Karanda Mission Hospital, Zimbabwe ECWA Egbe Hospital, Nigeria Bongolo Hospital, Gabon Karolyn Kempton Memorial Christian Hospital, Togo Galmi Hospital, Niger ECWA Egbe Hospital, Nigeria Kijabe Hospital, Kenya Hospital Mision Tarahumara, Mexico Galmi Hospital, Niger Macha Mission Hospital, Zambia Hospital of Hope, Togo Hospital Mission Tarahumara, Mexico Mbingo Baptist Hospital, Cameroon Hospital Shalom, Guatemala Karolyn Kempton Memorial Christian Hospital, Togo Memorial Christian Hospital, Bangladesh Kapsowar Hospital, Kenya Kibogora Hospital, Rwanda Soddo Christian Hospital, Ethiopia Karolyn Kempton Memorial Christian Hospital, Togo Kibuye Hope Hospital, Burundi Tenwek Hospital, Kenya Kibogora Hospital, Rwanda Kijabe Hospital, Kenya Kibuye Hope Hospital, Burundi Mbingo Baptist Hospital, Cameroon RHEUMATOLOGY Kijabe Hospital, Kenya Mukinge Mission Hospital, Zambia Banso Baptist Hospital, Cameroon Kudjip Nazarene Hospital, Papua New Guinea Myungsung Christian Medical Center, Ethiopia Mbingo Baptist Hospital, Cameroon Macha Mission Hospital, Zambia Tansen Mission Hospital, Nepal Tenwek Hospital, Kenya Mbingo Baptist Hospital, Cameroon Tenwek Hospital, Kenya Memorial Christian Hospital, Bangladesh Myungsung Christian Medical Center, Ethiopia PEDIATRICS Restricted Country Banso Baptist Hospital, Cameroon Tansen Mission Hospital, Nepal Bongolo Hospital, Gabon Tenwek Hospital, Kenya Chogoria Hospital, Kenya CME/Nyankunde Hospital, OTOLARYNGOLOGY Democratic Republic of the Congo Bongolo Hospital, Gabon ECWA Egbe Hospital, Nigeria Galmi Hospital, Niger ELWA Hospital, Liberia Kapsowar Hospital, Kenya Galmi Hospital, Niger Karolyn Kempton Memorial Christian Hospital, Togo Haiti Health Ministries, Haiti Kijabe Hospital, Kenya Hospital Diospi Suyana, Peru Mbingo Baptist Hospital, Cameroon Hospital of Hope, Togo Shalom Family Medical Center, El Salvador Hospital Shalom, Guatemala Tansen Mission Hospital, Nepal Jungle Hospital, Honduras Tenwek Hospital, Kenya Kapsowar Hospital, Kenya Karolyn Kempton Memorial Christian Hospital, Togo PATHOLOGY Kijabe Hospital, Kenya Banso Baptist Hospital, Cameroon Kudjip Nazarene Hospital, Papua New Guinea Galmi Hospital, Niger Macha Mission Hospital, Zambia Hospital Shalom, Guatemala Mbingo Baptist Hospital, Cameroon Kijabe Hospital, Kenya Memorial Christian Hospital, Bangladesh Mbingo Baptist Hospital, Cameroon Mukinge Mission Hospital, Zambia THORACIC SURGERY Myungsung Christian Medical Center, Ethiopia Nkhoma Mission Hospital, Malawi Banso Baptist Hospital, Cameroon Soddo Christian Hospital, Ethiopia Restricted Country Kijabe Hospital, Kenya Tansen Mission Hospital, Nepal Shalom Family Medical Center, El Salvador Macha Mission Hospital, Zambia Tenwek Hospital, Kenya Soddo Christian Hospital, Ethiopia Mbingo Baptist Hospital, Cameroon Tansen Mission Hospital, Nepal Myungsung Christian Medical Center, Ethiopia PEDIATRIC ORTHOPEDIC SURGERY Tenwek Hospital, Kenya Tenwek Hospital, Kenya AIC-CURE International Children’s Hospital, Kenya Banso Baptist Hospital, Cameroon PHYSICAL MEDICINE & REHAB UROLOGY Galmi Hospital, Niger Banso Baptist Hospital, Cameroon Banso Baptist Hospital, Cameroon Kibogora Hospital, Rwanda ECWA Egbe Hospital, Nigeria ECWA Egbe Hospital, Nigeria Mbingo Baptist Hospital, Cameroon Galmi Hospital, Niger Galmi Hospital, Niger Mbingo Baptist Hospital, Cameroon Hospital Mision Tarahumara, Mexico Myungsung Christian Medical Center, Ethiopia Hospital Shalom, Guatemala Soddo Christian Hospital, Ethiopia Kapsowar Hospital, Kenya Tansen Mission Hospital, Nepal Karanda Mission Hospital, Zimbabwe Tenwek Hospital, Kenya Kibogora Hospital, Rwanda Kijabe Hospital, Kenya PLASTIC SURGERY Kudjip Nazarene Hospital, Papua New Guinea Banso Baptist Hospital, Cameroon Macha Mission Hospital, Zambia ECWA Egbe Hospital, Nigeria Mbingo Baptist Hospital, Cameroon Galmi Hospital, Niger Nkhoma Mission Hospital, Malawi Hospital Loma de Luz, Honduras Soddo Christian Hospital, Ethiopia Kapsowar Hospital, Kenya Tansen Mission Hospital, Nepal Karanda Mission Hospital, Zimbabwe Tenwek Hospital, Kenya Kijabe Hospital, Kenya Macha Mission Hospital, Zambia Mbingo Baptist Hospital, Cameroon Memorial Christian Hospital, Bangladesh Nkhoma Mission Hospital, Malawi Tenwek Hospital, Kenya RADIOLOGY Banso Baptist Hospital, Cameroon ECWA Egbe Hospital, Nigeria Galmi Hospital, Niger Hospital Evangelico, Honduras NON-PROFIT ORG. US POSTAGE PAID Samaritan's Purse Samaritan's Purse • International Headquarters P.O. Box 3000 Boone, NC 28607-3000 01-20-18 “HE HEALS THE BROKENHEARTED AND BINDS UP THEIR WOUNDS.”—Psalm 147:3